Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

From: raster redhat com

To: tromey cygnus com

cc: rdutt voxel net, bjp primenet com, gnome-list gnome org

Subject: Re: A Proposal For The Addition Of Color-Reactiveness To The GNOME Desktop

Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 10:32:58 -0400 (EDT)

On 20 May, Tom Tromey shouted:
-> >>>>> "Raj" == Raj Dutt <rdutt@voxel.net> writes:
->
-> Raj> Firstly, I think putting the responsiblity with the window
-> Raj> manager is a good thing (tm).
->
-> Why?
->
-> My first reaction whenever I see a proposal to put something into the
-> wm is to reject it. My reason is that there are many window managers,
-> and everybody has his own preference. It's better to keep wm
-> requirements as small as possible, and put extended functionality into
-> a new program.
well how you expect to display this information in the border of a
window, titlebar or in the icon of an iconified window beats me if you
aren't going to use the WM... :) We could clutter up the panel and use
corba and shit.. oh joy! WATCH the bloat as everypone needs to write c++
wrappers for their code just to talk to mico. :)
For some people, like me, the panel is a temporary fix until I get my
buttons, strips and stripjoints up and running in E. Once that happens
It's use will become redundant and it can cease eating up skads of
useful screen realestate. :)
-> Then we have control over the program, and we also don't require a
-> weird setup.
->
-> Think of it like requiring something to be added to everybody's text
-> editor, or everybody's mail reader. It just doesn't happen.
Maybe things are changing compared to how thingsa used to be written..
u'll be surprised. 2 WM's already are putting this in - and its less
than 48hrs later :)
->
-> Tom
->
->
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